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North Takes Charge
The American Civil War
By: Spencer Harrall & Erin Carney
Battles That Changed the War
• Chancellorsville
• Gettysburg
• Vicksburg
Battle of Chancellorville
• Who: Lee (Top general for the South)
• What: South defeated the North in the battle.
• Where: Chancellorsville, Virginia
Battle of Chancellorville
• When: 1863, the battle occurred the first four
days of May.
• Why: Lee outmaneuvered the Union army and
wanted to move North to cut off the Union’s
army from supplies which then leads to a key
victory win for the North.
Battle of Chancellorville
Battle of Gettysburg
• Who: It was a major victory for the Union.
• What: The battle had the largest number of
casualties in the war.
• Where: The battle took place in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania.
Battle of Gettysburg
• When: The Battle was fought July 1-3rd, 1863
• Why: The two armies initially collided at
Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 as Lee urgently
concentrated his forces there, His objective
was to defeat and destroy the Union Army.
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of vICKSBURG
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Who: Ulysses S. Grant
What: Grant continued held a campaign
When: Vicksburg, Mississippi
Where: Spring, In the year 1863
Battle of vicksburg
• Why: Vicksburg, Mississippi was one of the
only two confederate holdouts preventing the
Union from taking complete control of
Mississippi River, an important waterway for
transporting goods.
Vicksburg
Sherman’s March to the Sea
• This campaign began with Sherman’s troops
leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia,
on November 15th and ended with the capture
of port Savannah on December 21st. Sherman
wanted to march and destroy everything in his
path.
– Burned entire towns
– Destroyed railroad tracks
– Burned farms and fields
Sherman’s march to the sea
South surrenders
• Who: Lee & Grant
• What: The South surrenders once the general of
the North and the general of the South meet up,
and make an agreement to surrender.
• Once they made an agreement the North let the
South leave with their possessions.
South surrenders
• When: April 9, 1965
• Where: Virginia, Appomattox Courthouse
• Why: North had finally defeated the South.
Finally south surrenders
After Four years the war finally is over…
The American Civil War
Legacy of The War
Alicia B. , Storm S. , Corey M.
Fort Sumter
Political Changes
Federal Government had
nothing to do with peoples
lives before the war.
Federal Government
reached into peoples
pockets, taxing private
incomes.
Federal Government tore
reluctant men from their
families to fight in the war.
Economic Changes
National Bank Act of 1863, a
system of federally
chartered banks, set
requirements for loans, and
provided for banks to
inspected.
Northern entrepreneurs had
grown rich selling war
supplies to the government
and thus had money to
invest in new businesses
after the war, army
recruitment created a labor
shortage in north.
Cost Of the War
• 360,000 Union soldiers
and 260,000
Confederates Died.
• 275,000 Union Soldiers
and 225,000
Confederates were
wounded.
• Union and Confederates
spent a total of about
$3.3 billion during the
four years of war
Changing lives
• The North and the
South separated from
the Union in 1861–1865
• The North and South
split and all lives
changed drastically
• For solders, African's
and regular citizens
Abe’s Laws
• Abraham Lincoln
passed the law called
Emancipation
Proclamation
• This law stated that
January 1, 1863, “all
persons held as slaves"
within the rebellious
states "are, and
henceforward shall be
free."
Solders Lives
• The lives of soldiers
was harsh during the
Civil War.
• They had hard lives in
the Civil War but they
didn’t know when it was
going to end
African American’s
• The lives of African
Americans in the Civil
War was bad.
• There was still
discrimination against
the blacks.
• Some times they even
fought for what side
they believed in
The Lives Affected
• African, solders, and
also common people
• The presidents life
changed drastically
• Same with all of the
soldiers and
commanders
• They all fought a nice
long and hard battle for
the law to be passed and
lives to be changed
The Assassination
•Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated on April 14,1865
• Abraham was at the Fords
Theatre and was assassinated
by John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth
• John was a actor and his
first act was in Richard
III.
• He also had a family
member that was a
actor.
• He was making plans in
the summer of 1864 to
take the president as a
captive for the war.
John Wilkes Escapes
• Right after John Wilkes
kills the president he
jumps of the balcony
and breaks his left leg
on the landing.
• He looks at the crowd
and says this "Sic
simper tyrannous!" and
then runs off stage to a
horse held by one of his
followers
Booths final attempt to get away
• After he got on the horse he
went as far as he could, he
got to a barn
• Once he got the barn a
couple of Union soldier
ordered them to come out or
they will set fire to the barn,
he refused to come out and
they set fire, then Booth
went to the barn door and
got shot by Sergeant Boston
Corbett, His last words were
"Tell mother I die for my
country."
The End
• The president was said to
be dead at 7:22 Am of
April 14.
• A year after the
Confederacy starts to lose
the war badly from not
having enough supplies
for his troops
• On October 14, 1865 the
Confederacy’s President
was hung.